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Language English Media type Print ISBN 0-399-13143-4 Originally published 1986 Genre Science Fiction Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1986 Pages 526 OCLC 50819625 Page count 526 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Strangers is a novel written by Dean Koontz, released in 1986.
Contents
Story
A group of people who are brought together by their different and equally strange maladies. There is Dominick who suffers from somnambulism, Ginger who lapses into a fugue state with no apparent reason, Father Brendan who loses his faith and later gains a miraculous 'gift', and Ernie who suffers from nyctophobia.
Dominick receives Polaroids that eventually leads him to the Tranquility Motel, situated in the middle of the Nevada 'high-desert', thirty miles west of Elko. Together with Ned and Sandy, who run the restaurant next door to the motel, they discover that their true memories from the summer of the previous year may have been hidden.
Later Ginger, Jorja, and the other people who stayed at the Tranquility Motel are contacted and invited to join the group. Ginger shares that their memories are hidden behind Azrael Blocks - a means of brainwashing induced through drugs and hypnotism, after she herself was regressed through hypnotism to try and uncover the cause of her malady.
The Tranquility 'community' try to figure out what was done to them and who could have done it, but little do they know that they are being watched by the people who have done this to them. Joined by Jack Twist (who was led to the Tranquility Motel by a series of postcards placed there by an insider) the group finally come up with a strategy to uncover the government secret that has been hidden deep beneath the hills at the Thunder Hill Depository.